My AM Journey So far... What's next?

BEWARE: Writing this at 4AM, 4 hours til I start working.
This all started 4 years ago. I was honestly lost and had no idea what I was really looking for.
As a broke teenager, being a full time student in a private high school, I was pretty busy with school & didn't really look at getting a job.


I have Asian parents so you get it: "FOCUS ON SCHOOL".
I've always wanted to be independent of my parents so I can dip whenever I want. I started to learn a lot about making money online on forums.
It all started with OGAds, I somehow made money & barely started to grasp the concept of IM. From there, I just loved it & wanted to learn more, and I was hungry for the penny.

I'm from Canada, and would love to touch ground with some of you guys. I speak french/mandarin/english.

Anyway, I've been an IM enthusiast for so long. I've gone through so many methods, niche, social networks & blablabla.
Some example:

OGAds = Made 5 figures with them, overall a really great network, the staff are awesome ngl. I mostly did yt. Also did Instagram but gave up before it succeeded.
Instagram = did grow my ig to 6k with follow/unfollow, brought a lot of expensive tools. Just started my growth journey on my dog page. I'm not sure if I want to do all this complex setup of mother/child acct. I think I need to focus on TikTok, easier to blow up right now.

Amazon FBA = learned all the tools, junglescout, helium, viral launch. At the time, I got scared of all the investment I had to put first hand & just bailed after learning it all. "Paralysis by analysis".
eBay selling, made a grand or two.
Fiverr selling, just started, need to get some reviews & full send it afterward.
Shopify = made e-commerce tried to promote it with Instagram and some other means. Made like 50$, just shut it down
Blogs/site = tried to make site with articles, but no big success. I've watched so many tutorials on doing outreach/link building & etc. I just never pulled the trigger as I wasn't 100% committed, and the tools are expensive to start with hunter.io/ahref and many more.
Crypto investment = made over 50k, but didn't cash out when bitcoin crashed from 20k to 8k, was heavily invested in altcoins, ended up with -10k to 20k.

Making some basic sites with WordPress is kinda fun. I have so many hobbies it looks like o.o

I've done so much shit and tried out so many tools but I just don't remember tbh. You name it, I've done it.

TLDR of my story: was going school full time: 35hours/week and then did CPA to 2Am & wake up at 8am.

I burned out & just gave up on everything with IM and got myself a real job & creating a YT channel & learn more about stocks. That's I've been up to lately.

negative stuff about me:
- I give up when it gets to the hard stuff, I get 90% done and somehow give up before it's done...
- I'm scared to invest in the unknown.

I think it's important to list the stuff I'm proud of too:
-I've referred 3 friends on OGAds and got them all over 10k+ earnings.
-I quit Runescape like a month ago. Started playing a lot during the quarantine.



Goals:
-Fix that shitty sleep schedule
-Get back on my foot & start banking like I used to. (Still making money, just not as much as I used to)

I feel like there is a lot missing, but ima update it in the morning when I wake up...

Hey jakkkkkk! Congratulations on starting a journey thread.

Your story definitely seems familiar. There are so many ways to earn money online, so it's easy to get 'shiny thing'-syndrome and move from one approach to another.
In my experience it's best to stick with 1 thing though. It's a cumulative thing: the more you stay within the same area, the more you learn, and the bigger you chance of breaking through and earning a good amount of money.

Starting over on something else is more fun, but you have to realize you're starting from scratch. After some time the excitement from the novelty and "potential" dies down, and you're stuck around the same place as last time. When you run into a challenge; something just isn't working for whatever reason, that's when it's tempting to drop it and try something new. But it's not a good approach: you can keep doing that again and again.

The trick is to *carefully* pick one thing, and then stick with it, even when it becomes boring and/or annoying.
When it starts frustrating you that means you're in the place where you're learning. And that's important.
If making money in an area is so easy, that anyone can just start out and make cash right away, that thing won't last a long time. It'll be overcrowded.
But if you work on something long enough, and work through frustration, then you'll be one of the few who did that. It won't be crowded, because most people took the easy way out and moved to something else.

So I'd recommend you pick 1 thing and decide to give it everything for 6 months or similar. Don't allow yourself to get sidetracked until that deadline is hit.

Ps. if you're good with Amazon FBA, but don't want to run the risk yourself, then you can offer your skills as a service on Fiverr.

AlphaTwin said:

Hey jakkkkkk! Congratulations on starting a journey thread.

Your story definitely seems familiar. There are so many ways to earn money online, so it's easy to get 'shiny thing'-syndrome and move from one approach to another.
In my experience it's best to stick with 1 thing though. It's a cumulative thing: the more you stay within the same area, the more you learn, and the bigger you chance of breaking through and earning a good amount of money.

Starting over on something else is more fun, but you have to realize you're starting from scratch. After some time the excitement from the novelty and "potential" dies down, and you're stuck around the same place as last time. When you run into a challenge; something just isn't working for whatever reason, that's when it's tempting to drop it and try something new. But it's not a good approach: you can keep doing that again and again.

The trick is to *carefully* pick one thing, and then stick with it, even when it becomes boring and/or annoying.
When it starts frustrating you that means you're in the place where you're learning. And that's important.
If making money in an area is so easy, that anyone can just start out and make cash right away, that thing won't last a long time. It'll be overcrowded.
But if you work on something long enough, and work through frustration, then you'll be one of the few who did that. It won't be crowded, because most people took the easy way out and moved to something else.

So I'd recommend you pick 1 thing and decide to give it everything for 6 months or similar. Don't allow yourself to get sidetracked until that deadline is hit.

Ps. if you're good with Amazon FBA, but don't want to run the risk yourself, then you can offer your skills as a service on Fiverr.

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You're right about focusing on one thing. it definitely works better and that's what everyone should be doing.
Great advice!
Work smart, apply what's already working.

In my short life, I think I made it to the 6 figures which I'm quite happy. Just feels like I lost my momentum and having a hard time getting it back.
One of the reason why I gave up even though I was banking was that I lost sense of the meaning of money. It didn't mean shit anymore, I'd spend it like i didn't care and honestly I still don't care about money.
I think I need to focus on something I enjoy doing for myself.

Tryna get back on track.
-I'm moving out soon.
-Going back to play hockey.

I think those small things that once made me happy, I should keep doing them to not burn myself out again.



I'm looking for like-minded people who share my work ethics but are also open-minded to share and progress together. It would be beneficial for both in IM & make some friends along the way.